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Dress
& Fur Clips of the 1930-40’s

See Jewel Chat Magazine "Clips and How to Wear Them"

DRESS CLIP
black bakelite back with multi-colored rhinestones set in gold tone, 2-1/2".
View #Y19805

DRESS CLIPS gold
tone filigree with red, green and blue cabochons.
View #Y19953

CZECH petal
capped gem tone glass teardrops dress
clip 2-1/2". View
View #Y19827

CLIP red, green, blue and
clear poured glass dress clip, 2-1/8".
View #Y24859

REINAD
NYC dress clip with cranberry and green glass beads set in gold tone, circa 1940,
3-1/2".
View #X25063

CLIP with brilliant red, blue and
green cabochons and marcasites.
View #X23404

HASKELL pink and blue glass
dangles dress clip, 3". See Gordon & Pamfiloff’s "Miriam Haskell
Jewelry" page 148.
View #Y24905

CLIP dress clip
with topaz glass faceted beads and gold tone leaves, 2-1/4".
View #Y24927

BLUE glass teardrops dress
clip, 2-1/2".
View #Y24904

DE ROSA Deco
style rose and lavender unfoiled stones in this brilliant 1-3/4"
dress clip.
View #X19810

CLIP with
a portrait under glass mounted in
gold tone scroll embossed dress clip, 2-1/2".
View #Y27372

DRESS CLIP with clear beveled
center stone, green and pink surrounding stones, 1-1/2".
View #Y19899

FLOWER 2-1/8"
fur clip with pink and blue pastel rhinestones center in this VERY three
dimensional piece. I think it is an unsigned De Rosa as I have the original
art work for a piece just like this.
View #Y19830

DOUBLE
dress clips on a pin back in red and clear rhinestones set in silver tone. Large and lovely
at 3" wide.
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#Y19814

BOW
double clip on a pin back in green and clear rhinestone set in silver tone,
most unusual, 2". View
#Y19831

GLASS
melon-shaped beads and leaves decorate this wonderful 2-3/4" dress clip.
View
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#Y19818

DRESS
CLIP a tiny 3/4" treasure with marcasites and topaz-colored glass beads.
View #Y19912

CLEMENS 2-1/4" dress
clips with gem tone cabochons and a hand-hammered look circa. View
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View #Y19806

DeROSA
gold tone 3" tree fur clip with pink rhinestones and an enameled
peacock and leaves. View
#d22075

MAZER large 4"
enameled fox fur clip.
View #B21882

FOX gold tone foxy fur clip,
3-1/3". View
View #Y21866

PURSE CLIP

rectangular plaque base
with geometric openwork lattice design of colorless horizontally-set
baguette rhinestones and colorless vertically pave-set rhinestones,
surmounted by four sets of opposed pink triangular glass stones with central
pink glass bead clusters, two flat-backed hinged clips on reverse, 3-7/8" x
1-1/2", circa 1930. The back shows where it was once
attached to something… perhaps a purse.
View
View #Y19623

Pink and clear rhinestone CLIPS shown together.
These are the same piece seen in Christie Romero’s "Warman’s Jewelry",
3rd Ed, page 140.

DRESS CLIP
a curved rectangular plaque with
a geometric saw tooth design of curved bars of square-cut light
pink and colorless rhinestones alternating with triangular plaques of pave-set
colorless rhinestones, two flat-backed hinged clips on reverse, curved 2-clips style, 3-1/8" clip probably meant to be worn on a curved
neckline, circa 1930. View
View #Y19909

DRESS CLIP
with large pastel green art glass glass cabochon and red rhinestone small
cabochons set in gold tone metal, circa 1930s, 3" wide. This is in excellent
vintage condition. View
#Y19906

DRESS
CLIP with a large unusually-shaped aqua center rhinestone, clip is
2-3/4". View
#Y19903

Pastel "Bubbles" pink and
blue glass beads 2-1/4" dress clip.
View #H19950

BUTTERFLY pin…
when the wings are squeezed, the pins open to be fastened.
View
View #Y1546

DECO
CLIP/BRACELET silver tone mesh slide bracelet with a detachable dress
clip end decoration. View
View #Y19966

EISENBERG unsigned clear rhinestone 2-3/4" double clip brooch. It is hinged at
the center so that it can be worn with the wings in different positions.
View
View #E21238

PEACOCK tail motif clear
rhinestones dress clip circa 1935.
View #c21255

DOUBLE
clip 2-5/8" brooch in clear rhinestones circa 1935, marked pat 2,114,675.
View #c21253

DRESS CLIP peridot colored
rhinestone and pave 2-1/3" marvel. Really brilliant!
View #Y19908

ROSE BROOCH in
silver tone setting with pave and citrine colored accents, 2".
View #Y19885

MAZER Deco style clear
pave 3-1/3" pin.

View #M20938

DRESS
CLIP
3-dimensional pave rose 2-1/4". View
View #Y19917

CLIPS Deco style
wonderfully designed clear rhinestone dress clips, set of 2, 2-5/8" each.
View #Y21035

TKF Clipmates Deco style
clear rhinestone pave 2-5/8" pin/clips.
View #T20942

CLIP/BROOCH
clear rhinestone clip/pin combo, circa 1940. View
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#Y17498

CLIP
glass and metal 2" dress clip, circa 1940.
View #Y21852

CLIP in clear,
red and blue rhinestones, 2-1/8". Possibly a 1940’s MB Boucher,
but most of the mark is illegible.
View #Y22952

MB
FUR CLIP Marcel Boucher 3″ two-pronged with red baguettes and clear rhinestone pave…
really a statement piece! Marked with the "bird head" mark
and "Patn Pend". VIEW
VIEW #M17367

DRESS
CLIP 2" wreath of multi colored rhinestones.
View #Y19902

FUR CLIP in red,
clear and blue rhinestones with enameled beehive emblem in the center.
View
View #Y19927

DRESS CLIP
with purple and pink rhinestones set in gold tone.
View #Y19952

DRESS CLIP with
chain fringe and topaz-colored beads and rhinestones, 3-1/2". This
is an unsigned DeRosa.
View #Y19913

DECO fabulous substantial 3" dress clip with green and clear rhinestones.
View #Y21869

DRESS CLIP with red and purple rhinestones set in gold tone metal
cornucopia shapes, 3-1/4". View
#Y21009

WOODEN
multi-colored beads 3-1/2" dress clip with green wooden leaves.
View #Y21708

GRAPES glass beads and plastic
leaves clip. View
#Y21230

PEARLIZED plastic baby blue
and pink dress clip, 3".
View #B22157

WISHBONE good luck fur clip
with green enameled shamrocks and clear rhinestone centers all set in
gold tone, horse shoe made to rock back and forth, circa 1935.
View #Y62025

AQUA brooch of aqua
pinched glass beads and florets and white celluloid chain, circa 1940, 4".
While this has some attributes of an early Hess piece, including the
findings and glass beads, I cannot attribute it definitely.
View
View #H62106

CLIP two-toned
metal beads, leaves and bells 3-1/2" dress clip circa 1940.
View #Y22108

WOOD, straw,
coral and aqua beads dress clip, probably Czech.
View #Y19780

HASKELL early unsigned dress
clip, wood and glass beads.
View
View #H21874

WOOD beads multi-color and white wooden
2-3/4" dress clip with floret beads at the top, very Haskell in it’s style, but
it could also be Czech.
View #H20853

LILY PAD and dangling florets
early unsigned gold tone 4" dress clip. From the findings,
construction and the detailed design, I would attribute this to Haskell.
It is absolutely lovely, and so unusual.
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#H20118

CLIP
Made in Germany white daisy glass beads 2-1/2" pin.
View #Y24792

CLIP gold
tone clip with green glass beads, 2-1/2".
View #Y25126

CLIP triangular dress clip
with cranberry glass beads, 2-1/4".
View #Y25162

GOLD
TONE leaves 3-1/2" dress clip with blue glass beads.
View #Y23961

CLIP
gold tone dress clip with floral motif and artificial pearls, 2-1/3".
View #Y26590

EMBOSSED
gold tone dress clip with carnelian colored pierced and etched stone,
2-7/8". View
#Y26376

SANDALS gold tone fur clips with clear rhinestones, set of 2, 1-3/4".
View #Y26691

BLUE “WMCA” (White Metal Caster’s
Association) Deco blue glass and
clear rhinestone round dress clip, circa 1930, 2″. See information on this
mark in Christie Romero’s "Warman’s Jewelry" Edition 3, page 136.
View #Y26055

TEARDROP glass beaded dress clip with gold tone leaves, circa 1940,
2-1/3". View
#Y19590

DECO dress clip with 1-1/2"
clear unfoiled rhinestone center surrounded by clear and purple
rhinestones, 2-5/8".
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#Y26768

MADE IN FRANCE
three swords fur clip, a HUGE 5-3/4" long and 4" wide. Red, white and black
enamel on gold tone metal. The sword hilts are formed of curled snakes with clown faces at the base of each
one.

Marked "Made in France"
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View #Y27840

MEXICAN man double
pronged fur clip with hinged sombrero, 2-1/4" in gold tone metal with red
and black enameling. Front View with hat down. Front View with hat back. Back View. #Y23423

HASKELL early
unsigned gold tone bells with blue glass bead clappers pin, 3-1/4".
View #H27753

PURPLE and pink rhinestones set in
gold tone dress clip, light wear on back, 2-3/4".
View #Y29550

DOCTOR DRESS large
clear rhinestone dress clip, circa 1935, 3".
View
View #Y28397

CLIP clear faceted glass
bead and pastel seed bead dress clip, circa 1940, 2-1/2".
View
View #Y27745

REYCO clear rhinestone button
covers, marked on the back "patn 1922".
View
View #Y29737

CLIPS
red glass beads and clear rhinestones V-shaped dress clips, set of 2, 1" each.
View
#Y26034

PINK and citrine unfoiled
rhinestones set in gold tone dress clip circa 1940, finish worn on sides,
2-3/4". View
#Y31156

CLIPS antiqued gold tone
with coral-colored glass cabochons clips, set of 2, 2-1/3" each.
View #Y51063

CLEAR unfoiled rhinestones
dress clip brilliantly set in silver tone, marked on clip back "pat
1852188", circa 1930, 3".
View #Y63725

CLIP
cobalt blue glass bell-shaped and round beads clip with gold tone metal bead
accents, circa 1940, 2-3/4".
View #H31229

CLIP royal blue glass beads
wired onto brass setting pin, 3" by 2.5"..
View
View #H32138

CORO flower dress clips in
clear rhinestones, gold tone and silver tone, circa 1930s, 1-1/2" each.
View
View #Y35608

Dress clip to be worn on a neckline or the edge of a lapel.

Two-pronged fur clip, to be worn like a brooch.

Purse clasp clip.

LILY pad and dangling florets, an
early unsigned gold tone 4" dress clip, circa 1940. It is absolutely lovely, and so unusual.
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#H20118

1939 Benjamin Allen Catalogue page 137.
"Tryette sets combination brooch and dress clip sets. White metal white stone
sets." These were early versions of what Corocraft called "Duettes".

PURPLE rhinestone clip set in gold tone
filigree, 1-5/8" by 1-1/4". This is in excellent condition with
unfoiled stones and clean gold tone setting.
View #Y40135

Shoe clips.

Duette brooch/clips combination which can be worn as one brooch or two separate
clips.

Shoe buckles which would have had an addition clip to attach it to the shoe.

DRAMATIC fur clips with an Eisenberg look but no signature.
This is a pair of curved dress clips in emerald
green colored rectangular stones and red square stones, all set in gun
metal colored silver, each clip 2-1/3" by 1-1/4", circa 1940. The
price is for the set of two clips.

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#E38344

FLOWERS fur clip with white glass petals and blue rhinestones centers, petals held by gold tone
surrounds and accented with gold tone leaves, circa 1940, a nice large 4" by
3". This can be seen in another color in Ball & Torem’s "Masterpieces of
Costume Jewelry" on page 183. One leaf has a mold mark on the back that looks like a
crack but isn’t one.
View #Y65537

CLIP with red, blue and green glass leaves, fruit salad style, with clear
rhinestone accents and set in gold tone. Circa 1940s, it is 2" by 1-7/8" and
in excellent vintage condition with only slight discoloration of the metal
on the back only.

View #Y39106

SNAKES pair of snake dress clips with aqua rhinestones in their mouths
and textured gold tone, patent number under the clip is "AT180112", circa
1930s, each clip is 2" wide.

View

View #Y66452

CLIP Retro style fur clip with colored rhinestones set in gold tone, 3"
by 1-1/2". The rhinestones are red, purple, topaz, blue and green. In
excellent condition, this is circa 1950.

View #Y39522

Note: Cartier patented a mechanism for "double brooches" in about 1927, and Coro
patented their Duette mechanism in about 1931.